Journal Quilt Five

Melody Johnson is doing her February Quilt Along With Melody, and like the other years, it's wonderful. This one is like taking a workshop with her, it's extremely generous of her to share her expertise in this way.

The first exercise was a small quilt with a pillowcase finish, so I did the journal size instead without the finish - I do know how to do that thanks to her earlier tutorial. It's pretty interesting that she recommends quilting closely to the narrow lines but not on them. She's figuring that the Wonder Under on hand dyes will do its sticking magic and the little lines won't pop back up.

What I learned: that when you use the scissors feature on the machine it pulls the needle thread to the back of the quilt. I had just never noticed that.